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"Oh, and Rixie?"

"Yes?" she questioned back.

Bruce said one line "Take off the shorts." and then left. Leaving the girl staring at the door in shock.

Chapter 5:

"I'm not wearing any!" he screamed at the shut door. "God! I can't believe him sometimes he's just… ugh!"

"Hey, Rixie, calm down." M'gann spoke calmly to the thirteen year old. Who did just as she told him to. Calming in a matter of seconds.

"So, Wally, you never answered my question." Rixie changed topics quickly and seemed to brighten.

"But your dad said-" Wally tried.

"Screw 'im." Rixie responded instantly. "Besides, I think I can name one guy that would not mind being able to dance with the same girl all night."

"Who?" Wally questioned, confused.

"Conner and M'gann." Rixie responded instantly, but Wally looked to him shocked. Both aforementioned protectors began to blush. "You don't see it?" he asked shocked. "Wally… I know you're oblivious, but I can't believe you missed that. I've known M'gann for- like- two hours and I knew that."

Wally just continued to look at M'gann in shock, his gaze occasionally flittering to Conner.

"If that's alright with you, Kaldur, if you think it would benefit my safety to have two, I can alternate between you two." Rixie said, decidedly ignoring Wally's imitation of a fish.

"No, I trust Wally, Artemis, Conner, M'gann and I can keep an eye on you from different distances, which would probably be better." Kaldur told the heir.

"Perhaps, with that logic, M'gann and Conner should not enter with us." Rixie offered. "Or you and Artemis, whichever works."

"Make them think you have less guards?" Kaldur questioned, that seemed the opposite of productive.

"Me being anyone else would be more than normal and the way you carry yourself would prove to them that you're my protection." Rixie explained, they didn't know how he normally handled himself at these events, but he was being patient and explaining everything they needed to know.

"Conner and M'gann can follow you in, is it common to arrive without a guest?" Kaldur asked.

"At our age, yes, you should have no trouble finding an excuse to be on the floor at least a few times." Rixie said, as if this was overly simple.

"Wait, we have to dance?" Conner asked, worried and shocked.

Rixie laughed once more, this one graced his eyes, but didn't brighten them fully. "It's easy, two forward, two to the left, two to the right and two back."

"Your forward or mine?" Wally asked, seeming worried now as well.

"Yours." Rixie said with a small eyeroll. Just as a text came through a bing on his phone. "Five minutes." he told them, then turned to Kaldur and Artemis specifically. "If you two want to make your unnoticed entrance do it now." The two nodded and did just that.

M'gann took a shaky breath, which all four noticed. "Hey, it'll be fine." Rixie said, then stepped closer to M'gann, whispering the next bit. "Try and stay whelmed." M'gann arched a confused eyebrow, but didn't make a noise, nor did she seem to get it. Part of Rixie broke in that realization, but Alfred walked through the door he had the last time.

"You ready?" Rixie asked Wally, who offered him his arm. He took it with a smile.

"As I'll ever be." the speedster admitted, nearly vibrating with his nerves, but forced himself to calm down in order to not expose himself.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my daughter Rixie Rachel Grayson-Wayne." Bruce's voice introduced, as the doors opened and the four walked through. The room clapped loudly for the appropriate time and then went back to mingling.

"Damn, you have a long name." Wally teased with a smile, the two were now a third of the way into the gala room. Standing where they were totally visible but not in anyone's way.

"We've stood here long enough, if anyone was here looking for me, they've now realized I'm protected." Rixie said instead of responding to the tease.

Wally rolled his eyes, but nodded to the alien couple. "Where's the food?" he asked the raven at his side.

Rixie chuckled, covering his slightly open mouth with his left hand- which was in a loose fist. Then gesturing to his left, which Wally followed. "You really do think with your stomach."

"Hey, I warned you." Wally said with a chuckle, walking over to where Rixie had pointed, but the raven soon realized he did know where he was going so he led the older boy.

"That you did." he muttered, but still smiled through it.

Wally got a fair amount of food and the two sat down at a table near that edge of the room. He was ½ way through the food before he spoke again. "So… I saw the news…" he began slowly, not sure how the younger teen would react.

"Yeah, so did I." Rixie grumbled, looking rather sour. "When it aired live, god dad was pissed."

"Is it…" Wally trailed, realizing how insensitive that would be.

"True." Rixie finished. It took a full second for Wally's brain to realize that he hadn't finished his question, instead he had given him the answer.

"That's horrible." Wally wasn't quite sure what else to say. "Why would they feel the need to expose your privacy like that?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Rixie muttered, then grabbed Wally's wrist. "C'mon, let's dance."

He didn't give the speedster time to respond or argue, because he already had the older boy's wrist in his grasp and dragged him to the edge of the dance floor.

"You do know I can't dance." Wally admitted quietly as the tips of his ears turned red, it was hard to see with his red hair, but Rixie saw it.

"That's fine, I'll lead." he said with a smirk.

That was true for the first song, but by second Wally was leading for some of it, for the third song Rixie decided to mess with him and start incorporating spins, meaning that he got to lead once more. In time for the fifth song Wally was back in control for more than half of the song. Then the tempo dropped drastically and the two followed it, not realizing that had even occurred.

"Am I at least improving?" Wally asked, sounding worried. "Your silence can be taken two ways."

"You're doing fine, and considering where you began that would be a yes." Rixie seemed to have purposely answered them in the wrong order. "Wally… I…" he tried, but couldn't get himself to say it.

"Yeah?" Wally questioned, confused at why the other boy didn't finish.

"Nothing, nevermind." Rixie physically shook away the question. The golden strands from the headpiece shaking with his long black hair. He then gave him a half smile, which for some reason the speedster's mind correlated to Robin's that he had given the team before he left the Mountain yesterday.

"You sure?" Wally checked, the girl merely nodded.

"I'm sure." Rixie assured him.

Then the tempo picked back up, slightly it was a ball-like setting, and the two realized that they had just danced a slow dance. Wally's ears burned and Rixie's cheeks turned red. "Definitely feeling the aster." Rixie muttered, but he was still smiling lightly.

"What did you say?" Wally questioned, not hearing his partner fully.

Rixie chuckled. "Nothing, c'mon, if I'm hungry, you almost definitely are." Wally nodded enthusiastically, and the two headed back to the buffet tables.

"There's Kaldur." Wally muttered, nudging Rixie's arm with his elbow, as he half gestured to Kaldur and Artemis who were standing on the end of the room, conversing.

"It's fine, if they were standing there just watching me then I'd have you say something, but they're fine, besides, I'm sure Artemis has been going on and off the dance floor." Rixie seemed as if it really didn't bother him. "Conner and M'gann did the same thing, they did three songs, and are now taking a break." he gestured over his shoulder, to the alien couple two tables behind them.

"Can we join them?" Wally questioned, it was hard to tell if he was asking the others permission or if he was worried about blowing their cover.

Rixie shrugged. "Why not? There comes a point when the teens all converge on two tables, but that won't happen for another hour I'd guess."

"You guess?" Wally echoed, confused and shocked.

Rixie held up his bare left wrist towards Wally. "No watch. I'm guessing."

He then turned back and started grabbing some more food, not a lot, but a moderate amount. The two then turned towards the table that the two aliens were sitting at. Rixie sat on M'gann's right and Wally sat beside her, much like Conner had done with M'gann.

"Hey guys." M'gann said cheerily as ever. Both boys on her right raised their utensil in acknowledgement. But didn't vocalize anything. "I told Conner, that wasn't rude, was it…" the girl spoke nervously. "I- I know it wasn't my place, but-"

"M'gann." Rixie said after he swallowed what he had put his mouth not only calm, but slightly commanding. "It's fine." he assured with a small smile.

"Hey circus freak." a female voice spoke from behind Rixie. The three instantly turned to the girl, but shockingly he was smiling.

"Hey Babs." he returned, not turning towards the auburn haired girl behind him. She joined them at the table, and as she did the other three realized she was about two years younger than Rixie. "Oh, right." Rixie muttered, realizing why the table was silent- minus Wally's eating, of course. "Babs, this is Wally, Conner and M'gann. My protection for tonight. Guys, this is Barbara, Commissioner's Gordon daughter."

"Why would the Commissioner be here?" M'gann questioned voicing the threes confusion.

"I'm pretty sure dad pulled in every favor he had stored up, considering the Joker threat and the news about my… identity." the thirteen year old began so calmly, but the tone changed to annoyance then to nervous, it was clear which one Rixie was the most afraid of happening.

"You'll be fine, Rixie, you'll see." Babs attempted to comfort the thirteen year old who couldn't really classified as a friend and rather an acquaintance.

His hands came into his lap, intertwining his fingers, twirling his thumbs and focusing on them a lot than would be necessary to any person, ever. "This is a disaster, heavy on the dis." he finally said, but his blue eyes were still focused on his clenched hands.

Barbara chuckled slightly. "Must you slaughter English?" she tried to joke, but Rixie's lips dropped beyond the stark line he had kept them at and turned downwards. "Sorry Rix, I just meant it as a joke."

"I know." the thirteen year old muttered, not sounding very reassuring, but Barbara seemed to accept it, and stood up, leaving the table.

"Hey, Rixie…" Wally began, the raven glanced up, part of his long hair blocking his face. "do... you want to… doyouwanttogobackontothedancefloor." the speedster spoke incredibly fast, to the point where the two others at the table were thinking that his nerves might have kicked in his superspeed might be at risk of exposure.

Rixie arched an eyebrow, clearly not catching that last bit. "All I heard was to, the, and floor." he admitted, then brought his head up fully as Wally dropped his own, his ears turning red. Rixie placed his hand on Wally's shoulder. "but... I also have a general idea of what I think you asked, so the answer is yes, that'd be nice."

The speedster stood in a matter of a second, and it became clear to M'gann and Conner that the reason he asked was because he was getting tired of sitting still. They were wrong 90% wrong, but they didn't need to know that right now. Rixie stood as well, allowing Wally to lead him back out to the dance floor.

M'gann glanced to Conner. "Do you want to… maybe… follow their lead?" she questioned.

Conner's facial expression didn't change, much, there was barely an upturn in his lips that gave away anything he was feeling. "Sure." he agreed, heading more to the left side of the dance floor than where Rixie and Wally were.

"Sorry about the super fast talking, it happens sometimes." Wally tried, trying not to mention that the reason behind it was because he was embarrassed.

"It's okay." Rixie assured before he allowed Wally to spin him as the did a 90° turn. Before continuing the pattern. This time Wally was leading almost completely. "So any questions you're dying to know?" he asked, this time during his spin, he was looking down at the flare of his dress, it was the one thing he liked, watching it flutter around his ankles.

"Just one." Wally admitted, though from his smile, Rixie could tell he was joking. "Did you hit your growth spurt and not tell me?" he jokingly sounded offended by the prospect.

Rixie laughed lightly, as Wally decided against doing another turn, not that he could blame him, too many in a row and you'd get hopelessly dizzy. It was fact. "No." he admitted, and was starting to get annoyed that his cheeks kept heating up. "I'm wearing heels." Wally glanced at the other's feet, clearly not connecting the dots. "With a three inch platform, then an extra two inches of heel. They make me five inches taller than I actually am." Even with those five inches he barely came up to Wally's eyebrows. "Anything else?"

"Yeah." Wally said through a laugh. "What's a platform?"

That got Rixie to truly laugh, this one filled his eyes with a bright light that caused his already bright blue eyes to seem as if they nearly glowed while he did that. "It means that under the front of my shoes, the toes and balls of my feet, the shoe adds three more inches under them." Wally made a face. "Yes, that makes it stupidly hard to walk in, but I've been doing it since I was ten, after three years you get good at it." he said simply, even shrugging slightly. Not realizing that brought his hand closer to the side of Wally's neck than his collar bone.

Wally chuckled, clearly a little bit embarrassed. To hide it he spun him once more, however, Rixie actually pulled his hand away from Wally and did a full double spin before coming to a stop right where Wally had stopped. He smiled brightly, but his eyes seemed resolved. "Can I ask you something?" Rixie questioned as they fell back into their rhythm.

"S-sure?" it came out as a question and Wally wanted to mentally smack himself for that.

It was quiet for a moment, and Wally thought his dance partner had changed his mind.

"What's it like?" Rixie asked suddenly, causing Wally to nearly misstep and kick his shoes.

"What do you mean?" he had to ask back, in all honesty he had no clue what Rixie meant.

"Being normal, not growing up as the adoptive child of a billionaire, going to public school, getting to be exactly who you want to be and not having to care about what other people think." he clarified, looking into Wally's eyes, never letting them leave them even slightly.

Wally actually had to stop and think. "I don't know how to describe it…" he admitted. "School I'm pretty sure is the same- stupid and annoying- and I wouldn't say that I can be exactly who I want to be without people judging me." That was almost too true, but he knew how to not talk about his other life. Afterall it had been three years since he'd gotten his powers. "I don't know, really, it's too hard to think about, because it's all I've ever known."

Rixie sighed. "Figured as much." somehow his eyes still didn't leave Wally's malachite colored eyes. "I mean, it'd be like me trying to describe what it was like for me when I had been adopted by Bruce- trust me I get that question a lot- the only way I can describe it… different."

"Been there." Wally agreed with a small smile, hoping the boy before him would do it if he did.

He didn't question it, but he did smile again. "Hey, Wally, I have to tell you something." his eyes had hardened somehow, he wasn't going to chicken out this time.

Wally quirked his head to the side, slightly confused by the other's suddenly sharp eyes. "What is it?"

"I-" he began but was cut off from a voice behind the auburn.

"So, how'd you do it, Circus Freak?" at first Wally thought it was Babara, but the tone was wrong, and she called Rixie a circus freak with the intent to make it hurt.

"What do you want Jane?" Rix asked, his face was as calm as it was when he made that comment to Bruce about he "hadn't given her(him) a choice" about being here tonight.

"I want to know how you did it?" the girl, Jane repeated. Wally released the raven and stood behind him and to his right, so he could have a look at who was going at the Wayne industries heir.

She was taller than Rixie, standing just taller than Wally, though he could see the tall heels in her shoes. Her hair was long, falling in waves to her midback, her skin was tanned, but her eyes were an almost dead shade of brown.

"You're going to need to be more specific." Rixie stated calmly.

"How'd you get him to dance with you?" Jane questioned. "How much did Mr. Wayne pay you?" Wally instantly realized that she was talking to him.

"I'm-" he began, and then remembered he could call himself Rixie's protection. "here of my own free will." he substituted, that was true. It may have been false when he arrived, but he didn't feel like that now. None of the team did. He could see Conner and M'gann still dancing just off to his left, and about twenty couples in front of him, Artemis laughing with some other girls near the edge of the floor and Kaldur on the floor with a girl he didn't recognize. All in all it looked like they were having fun.

"Ooo, fiesty." Jane mused, a sick grin coming onto her lips. "I like that." she reached for his hand and he instantly pulled it away.

"I'm here of my own free will" he repeated, "as Rixie's date." Jane's jaw dropped, and Rixie stepped in front of him, as soon as he was sure Jane couldn't see him he smiled brightly. Which Wally almost mirrored, except for the brunette still behind his raven dancing partner.

"Bye Jane." Rixie said calmly, though he had a smirk on his lips. The brunette left, letting Rixie and Wally relax. "I hate her."

"No arguments here." Wally seconded, as he spun Rixie, getting him to smile once more. "So what were going to tell me, before she came over."

Rixie's smile faltered for a moment, but it returned full force in a matter of six seconds. The two slowed so they were barely moving, but it was still to the tempo of the music. The smaller boy stepped closer to Wally bringing his lips almost to the outer shell of his ear. "Just… it's good to have a friend here, ya know, KF." with that the younger backed up and looked to Wally's face. As his eyes widened in shock, then confusion, then to shock once more and finally his features rested in one of confusion and Rixie was ready to punch the oblivious idiot.

"Wh-what?" he stuttered. "I mean-"

Rixie cut him off in an instant. "Dammit Wally you really are dense." he sounded annoyed and angry. "It's rather simple, KF, get on board, or get out of the way."

Wally looked to him confused as he called him KF once more, there was only two people Wally could think of that called him that… and the comment afterwards was eerily similar to that of what Superboy said when Superman tried to stop them from making the team.

Rixie was now glaring when he focused in on him again, clearly he was missing something. "You know, just because they call me Boy Wonder doesn't mean that I actually am one." he snapped, Wally's eyes widened. "I blame Bane, he's an idiot and I had short hair, but then again I was nine." Wally was staring unblinking at Rixie. "Wallman? You okay?"

That sealed it, only one person called him that. Only one, and the only other person to hear it was his Uncle Barry and Batman… but it couldn't be… "Robin?" he whispered, shocked.

Rixie smiled brightly, his eyes seemed to glow again. "Hi." he offered, not entirely sure what else to say.

"You- you're…" Wally stuttered, his brain literally could not process that fact.

"Yeah." Rixie agreed, nodding.

"Then that means…" he trailed again.

"From day one." the younger affirmed.

"Why didn't-" his voice was already very loud, so Robin slapped his hand over his mouth.

"Shush." the boy wonder snapped, narrowing his eyes, daring Wally to make another sound. "I couldn't, you should know that." they were silent for a moment. "Can I take my hand off or are you going to start yelling again?" Wally nodded his head to the first option, and stilled as she offered the second one. She looked to him, nearly glaring. "You'd better." with that he removed his hand.

"Holy shit." Wally merely muttered. Rixie merely looked away from him, he grabbed his wrist and pulled him back towards him as they began to dance to the music once more. "Thank you, and promise I won't ever mention this."

"You can't, ever." Robin confirmed. "Especially to Batman."

Wally blinked. "Wh-"

Robin cut him off, he may not know what the question was going to be, he'd let Wally guess for three more years before he told him that secret. For now, he'd follow the tactics he had used in Bialya. Hitting Kid Mouth. "If you do, let's just say it won't be me he's mad at." Wally gulped. "I mean, I'll be in for it, oh yeah, but I'm his protogé, you are not."

"You're not helping, dude." Wally groaned.

"I know." Rixie said with a smirk.

"Dude!" he hissed, glaring at Rixie, but it had no effect and seemed very pitiful in comparison to the Bat-glare he had given him less than a minute ago.

"Just as a motivator." Robin said, giving off his signature cackle, but a lot quieter than Wally had ever heard it.

"For what?" he questioned, confused.

"For you to never mention this to him." Robin said, then grabbed the back of Wally's neck, his fingernails grabbing ahold of his red hair, as their lips locked.

Damn... it's over, that actually really kinda pisses me off, but I also know that I couldn't drag it out any longer... I was originally going to make this two chapters, but as you can see there is no good place to divide it.

Please leave your reviews, and if you have ideas, I will give them a shot, seriously I think I'm starting to get obsessed with his pairing.

Loves, BVDG1